Special video for special clients!
I am excited about being able to offer video memories and experiences, unavailable elsewhere. Great event video should be about your people, their personalities, expressions, and emotions. My video will be a film that takes you back to those special moments and have you feeling as you felt then.
These words may sound similar to other videographer’s claims and they might use words like cinema, filmic, film, or cinematography. We probably agree that technology has made amazing advancements and your video should benefit from that.
But your video must be more than cameras that seem to float as smooth as butter, or image clarity that redefines crystal. Your video must convey the passion, the guts, the substance, the character and the personalities of your family and friends. And that requires totally different skill sets and thinking than is available elsewhere.
I hate saying that because it sounds crazy to boast that I am doing what no one else does. Sadly, the more you learn, the more you will agree.
Facts you need to know:
Constantly changing situations of a once in a lifetime event cannot be shot on a tripod. Period. The camera must be able to move in all three dimensions simultaneously and instinctively.
Few camera persons practice to perfect camera handling skills.
Most cameramen never even think about the more advanced techniques.
Video associations and schools do not teach these techniques.
Most videographers do not invest in cameras that can be used with the skills I refer to.
Most videographers use cameras that are held in front of them.
Only old timers have experience with a shoulder mounted camera. New guys use it awkwardly and quickly wish to put it down on a tripod.
Only shoulder mounted cameras have the ergonomics to allow skillful shooting.
When today’s cameramen buy shoulder mounted cameras, they rarely know about advanced camera handling techniques. So they do not know why certain specs are so important and they buy cheaper cameras that cannot be used in my way.
The handful of people who have invested in the rare camera that is both sensitive, and shoulder mounted, do mostly commercial video where they are directed on every shot, and do not have to use any of the skills I refer to.
In my 40 years as a photographer and my 30 years in video, I have known only a handful of cameramen who can do what most cannot. None of them are still doing it!
There are a few dozen professional videographers who work in theatre, and broadcast that have the exact skill I refer to. But they are used to being part of a well directed team of multiple videographers, each doing a small part of the job and they are shooting for an audience of strangers, not the loved ones who will value different things in their memories.
Creating meaningful video footage requires a photographer’s eye, and understanding of what people are self-conscious about in their appearance, a story tellers sequencing, an editor’s sense of timing and of course, a director of photography’s use of light.
Only the latest videographers have had photographic experience. But it is a very superficial un mentored, technical experience, not skilled artistry. Photographers do not become videographers.. . there is more money in photography. People buy books and albums and wall prints. Video is limited.
If you read articles on Video: Short or short changed :
http://blog.rabenko.com/videocamera/,
http://blog.rabenko.com/todaysvideo2/
http://blog.rabenko.com/todaysvideo3/
you will learn about the limitations of today’s popular camera formats, which cannot be used in the way that true shoulder mounted cameras can be used.
Today’s videographers do not know about those limitations because they do not have experience with the older type format, have no desire to hold a 25 pound camera on their shoulder and do not have anyone to teach them.
Watch today’s videos and you will see a wide range of image quality.
The best will feature sweet camera movements and crystal clear imagery.
But the content will not be worth watching. Angles on people will not be the best Moments will not be the most powerful and meaningful. Action captured will be the stereotypical expected moments, not the unexpected magic.
If you are having a small intimate event or a larger major event, you will find that my video has more of what you and your loved ones will value so much later. My work is not corny, or contrived. It is an honest reporting from a flattering perspective, of the subtleties of life that make reliving the experience so valuable and magical.
This is a very special offer.
When I am booked as photographer, I do photography and have my crew do video. Some very successful videographers have been with me for years, and will admit that they cannot do what I want in video. So I only can sell my style to a select client when I personally am available.
Other videographers will give you long, boring wide shots, too tight, meaningless, off timed long shots, and emphasize the unimportant, or expected moments.
Even videographers, with award winning edits, display extremely weak shooting.
The most prolific shooters, do not have any interest or knowledge in what is needed by the editor. Editors do not want to shoot, they want to sit back and edit in comfort.
Videographers are not concerned, skilled or sensitive. So how can your video of your loved ones be special?
I am the opposite.
To make an appointment to see my work…. Or to book me at a limited time for an amazing price…
ARE YOU HAPPY WITH TODAY’S EVENT VIDEOS?
Do they have substance or are they superficial.
Does the best image quality always seem to be of the least important moments?
Does the camera show what is important, or even who is most important?
Does it seem that the cameraman is on the pulse of the action and feeling the moment, or that he is just a camera holder doing a surveillance job?